IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/srs/jarle0/v7y2016i2p341-352.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Cyprus

Author

Listed:
  • Bagher ASGARNEZHAD NOURI
  • Milad SOLTANI

Abstract

Foreign direct investment FDI is considered one of the main causes of economic development and growth in host countries and it has followed an increasing trend over recent decades Identifying the factors instrumental in attracting foreign direct investment policy in various countries especially in developing countries which have failed to make good use of this factor can be useful The present study was an attempt to investigate factors influencing FDI in Cyprus as one of the developing countries in Europe The data were collected during 1995 2015 period The hypotheses were estimated using the vector error correction model The results demonstrated that rate of capital return degree of economic openness liquidity tax rate market size infrastructure human capital and economic growth rate have a significant effect on foreign direct investment in Cyprus However other independent variables i e government expenditure inflation rate and exchange rate do not have a significant effect on foreign direct investment

Suggested Citation

  • Bagher ASGARNEZHAD NOURI & Milad SOLTANI, 2016. "Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Cyprus," Journal of Advanced Research in Law and Economics, ASERS Publishing, vol. 7(2), pages 341-352.
    • Handle: RePEc:srs:jarle0:v:7:y:2016:i:2:p:341-352
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:srs:jarle0:v:7:y:2016:i:2:p:341-352. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Claudiu Popirlan (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://journals.aserspublishing.eu/jarle .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.